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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

WELL, I MEAN, HONESTLY, WHAT ELSE WOULD BE THE REASON FOR EXTENDING THE DEADLINE YET AGAIN?

IRAN IS HAVING A GREAT TIME BEING WOOED AND WINED AND DINED AND KISSED AND...WHATEVER ELSE GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN "DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES".

LOOK, JUST LOOK HOW HAPPY THE IRANIANS ARE WITH KERRY IN THAT HOTEL IN VIENNA!

ISN'T THAT THE SWEETEST THING?

WE'VE CERTAINLY GIVEN IRAN EVERYTHING IT'S ASKED FOR SO FAR...WHY NOT A NEW 'DEADLINE'?

IN A COUPLE OF VIDEOS I WATCHED, KERRY LOOKS A WEE BIT STRAINED...MAYBE JUST A TINY BIT FED THE HELL UP...BUT HE QUICKLY RECOVERED, PUCKERED UP AGAIN AND BACK THEY WENT TO THE "ROMANCING OF THE STONE".

I WISH PREZ OBAMA WOULD MOSEY ON OVER THERE AND JUST SHOW US THE FINE ART OF BOOT-LICKING IN FRONT OF LIVE MEDIA CAMERAS.
WHY HIDE THE LOVE, RIGHT?

"After missing their self-imposed June 30 deadline to hammer out a deal, officials here said they will extend until July 7 an agreement that set preliminary limits on Iran’s disputed nuclear activities and allowed a modest easing of some sanctions."

MEANWHILE, AS PICTURED ABOVE, BACK AT THE RANCH, THE IRANIAN PEOPLE HUNG SCROLLS OF PETITIONS FROM THAT, UMMM, "FREEDOM TOWER" IN TEHRAN DEMANDING THEIR ILLUSTRIOUS NEGOTIATORS GET THEM A "GOOD DEAL" FROM THE "GREAT SATAN" (THAT'S US, CITIZENS... AMERICA IS THE GREAT SATAN, IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD).
DON'T WORRY, IRANIAN FOLKS, OUR PREZ IS ALL SET TO GIVE YOU ISRAEL'S HEAD ON A STICK...I MEAN...MAKE YOU A REALLY NICE DEAL.

WOULD YOU LIKE ALL OUR FIRSTBORN OR JUST DEEDS TO ALL OUR HOMES? “So there are still some hard negotiations to take place,” Obama said at a news conference with visiting Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff. “But ultimately this is going to be up to the Iranians to determine whether or not they meet the requirements that the international community has set forth to be able to fairly and accurately and consistently assess whether or not they have foreclosed the possibility of obtaining a nuclear weapon.”EXCUSE MY 'POTTY MOUTH', BUT THAT'S JUST COMMON OLD BULLSHIT!
NO, NO, 'MANURE' WON'T DO WHEN WHAT HE SAID IS THE NASTY VARIETY OF WHAT A BULL CAN DROP.

A GUY LIKE, OH, SAY PUTIN, WOULD HAVE BACKED OFF AND GLASSED THAT PLACE IF A DEADLINE HE SET WAS IGNORED...OR ONE MIGHT ASSUME...
NOT US!
NOT THE U.S.!

I MUST THINK THAT OUR PREZ IS SO "JONESING" FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL THAT HE'LL SACRIFICE KERRY HIMSELF IF THE IRANIANS GIVE ANY INDICATION THEY'D LIKE BARBEQUE WITH THOSE BUTT-KISSES!

THIS HAS TO RANKLE SAUDI ARABIA, RUFFLE THE TAIL FEATHERS OF ALL WHO SEE IRAN AS THE BIG BAD ENEMY STATE IN THE CRAZY MIDDLE EAST.

BUT EVEN THAT WOULD MAKE LIFE TOUGHER ON ISRAEL.
WHAT NATION THAT SURROUNDS HER ISN'T TWITCHING AND DROOLING TO BE THE FIRST TO HIT ISRAEL AND WIPE IT OFF THE EARTH?
LOOKS LIKE OUR OWN "BIG-O" IS GOING TO BEAT THEM TO IT.
HE'S A SMART ONE...
MAYBE ALL HIS YEARS AS A PUPPET HAS TAUGHT HIM TOO MUCH ABOUT PUPPETRY?
AND MAYBE IRAN HAS LEARNED A FEW THINGS WHEN DEALING WITH AMERICA?

WHATEVER HAPPENS, OLD KERRY WILL JUST HAVE TO BEND OVER AND TAKE IT, RIGHT?

NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE...
THE NEXT PHOTOS OUT OF VIENNA MAY BE TOO PORNOGRAPHIC TO PRINT, RECKON?

THE NSA IS 100% ADDICTED TO SPYING ON US. I THINK THEY MAYBE "GET OFF" ON READING OUR PRIVATE EMAILS AND LISTENING TO OUR PHONE CONVERSATIONS.

OH, THE NSA, THE POOR NSA...IT'S JUST DRIVEN TO COLLECT MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DATA ON EACH AND EVERY U.S. CITIZEN AND A CURSED FEDERAL COURT JUST GRANTED ITS WISH TO PICK UP WHERE IT LEFT OFF...AS IF THE NSA EVER STOPPED COLLECTING AS MANY TIDBITS AS IT CAN.

“In passing the USA Freedom Act, Congress clearly intended to end bulk data collection of business records and other tangible things,” Judge Michael W. Mosman wrote in his opinion. “But what it took away with one hand, it gave back — for a limited time — with the other. . . . It chose to allow a 180-day transitional period during which such [bulk] collection could continue.”AND I'LL TAKE ALL BETS THAT THE 180 DAYS WILL NEVER END.YEAH, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY IT... I TOLD YOU SO!

THE BOYS DIDN'T SPEND OVER $2 BILLION ON THAT NEW UTAH FACILITY TO HAVE IT JUST SIT THERE. THE MARYLAND MEGA-COMPLEX PICTURED ABOVE WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, RIGHT?THE WHOLE "SEARCH FOR AL-QAEDA CELLS IN THE U.S." THING SORT OF REMINDS ME OF OUR SEARCH FOR "WMDs" IN IRAQ...WE KNOW BLOODY WELL THEY AREN'T THERE, OR DON'T REALLY AMOUNT TO A HILL OF BEANS (COMPARED, SAY, TO WHAT PAKISTAN, IRAN, AND OTHERS OVER THAT WAY HAVE...THOSE ARE SOME HUMDINGER "WMDs"!) BUT WE JUST MUST SPEND ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF TAXPAYER MONEY PRETENDING TO SAFEGUARD THE OLD "HOMELAND" FROM THOSE HORRRRRIBLE OLD 'TERRORISTS.

I TELL YOU WHAT, I'D PIT ANY OF OUR GANG UP ON CAPITOL HILL AGAINST ISIS' BEST AND BE CERTAIN OUR GUY WOULD BEAT HIM HANDS-DOWN ON THE TERRORIST BIT!TERROR IN AMERICA IS HOMEMADE!CONGRESS AND THE OVAL OFFICE COOKS IT UP FRESH EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said he saw no reason to resume collection, even on a temporary basis. “This illegal dragnet surveillance violated Americans’ rights for 14 years without making our country any safer,” he said.

OH, HUSH NOW, RON!YOU KNOW AND I KNOW THOSE BOYS HAVE TO HAVE THEIR DAILY FIX! THAT NONE OF THAT MASS DATA COLLECTION MADE A SINGLE SMALL DAMN IS BESIDE THE POINT, SON!

THAT THE WHOLE NSA BUSINESS OF SPYING ON ALL OF US WAS JUST THE OTHER DAY RULED 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND THAT IF ANY STATE ALLOWED THE SAME THING FROM ANY OF US WOULD BRING THE AXE FALLING ON OUR NECKS IS ALSO BESIDE THE POINT, ISN'T IT? "In May, a federal appeals court in New York held that the program was unlawful. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that the program stretched the meaning of the statute — Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act — to enable data collection in “staggering” volumes in the chance that “at some future point” there might be a need to search for terrorist links."WHAT'S A VIOLATION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION THESE DAYS ANYWAY?EVERYBODY'S DOING IT...THE PREZ HIMSELF LIKES TO VIOLATE IT, AND THE OATH OF OFFICE HE TOOK TO UPHOLD IT, AS DOES OLD CONGRESS...FREQUENTLY.

A NICE LITTLE 'OFF-THE-WALL' ARTICLE ABOUT THE FREQUENT AND COSTLY GLITCHES CAUSING SPARKS AND FIRES AT THAT NEW UTAH SITE TICKLED MY FUNNYBONE.

Within the last 13 months, at least 10 electric surges have each cost about $100,000 in damages, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Experts agree that the system, which requires about 64 megawatts of electricity—that's about a $1 million a month energy bill--isn't able to run all of its computers and servers while keeping them cool, which is likely triggering the meltdowns.

The contractor that designed the flawed system—Pennsylvania-based Klingstubbins--said in a statement that it has "uncovered the issue" and is working on "implementing a permanent fix."

But that's not the case, according to the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), which is in charge of overseeing the data center's construction. ACE disagreed with the contractor and said the meltdowns are "not yet sufficiently understood."

A report by ACE in the Wall Street Journal said the government has incomplete information about the design of the electrical system that could pose new problems if settings need to change on circuit breakers. The report also said regular quality controls in design and construction were bypassed in an effort to "fast track" the project.

Communications from all around the world in the form of emails, cell phone calls and Google searches, among other digital details are stored in the center's databases, which are said to be larger than Google's biggest data center. But due to the major system meltdowns, the NSA hasn't been able to use the center's databases, which it has claimed are crucial for national security.

Monday, June 29, 2015

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE FERTILIZERS HAVE LONG BEEN KNOWN TO CONTAIN POLONIUM-210, AN ALPHA-EMITTING RADIOISOTOPE OF URANIUM. THESE PARTICULAR FERTILIZERS ARE USED ON TOBACCO FIELDS AS WELL AS ON MUCH OF OUR FOOD CROPS LANDS.

ALPHA-EMITTERS CANNOT PENETRATE SKIN BUT DO ENTER THE BODY IN OTHER WAYS, BY EATING, DRINKING, INHALING IT OR THROUGH AN OPEN WOUND, AND POLONIUM-210 IS A HIGHLY LETHAL PRESENCE ONCE INSIDE A HUMAN BEING.

POLONIUM IS THE ONLY COMPONENT OF CIGARETTE SMOKE THAT HAS UNFAILINGLY PRODUCED CANCER IN LABORATORY ANIMALS....THE ONLY ONE.

"Researchers have induced cancer in animal test subjects that inhaled polonium 210, but were unable to cause cancer through the inhalation of any of the non-radioactive chemical carcinogens found in tobacco."[SEE: Yuille, CL; Berke, HL; Hull, T. 'Lung cancer following Pb210 inhalation in rats.' Radiation Res, 1967. 31:760-774.]"The most potent non-radioactive chemical, benzopyrene, exists in cigarettes in amounts sufficient to account for only 1% of the cancer found in smokers."

[SEE ALSO: (1) Marmorstein, J. 'Lung cancer: is the increasing incidence due to radioactive polonium in cigarettes?' South Medical Journal, February 1986. 79(2):145-50.AND(2) Watson, AP. 'Polonium-210 and Lead-210 in Food and Tobacco Products: A Review of Parameters and an Estimate of Potential Exposure and Dose.' Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1983. Florida Institute of Phosphate Research.]

"Acid wash was discovered in 1980 to be highly effectively in removing polonium-210 from the tobacco leaves; however, the industry avoided its use for concerns that acid media would ionize nicotine converting it into a poorly absorbable form into the brain of smokers thus depriving them of the much sought after instant 'nicotine kick' sensation," the researchers noted.

US Surgeon General C Everett Koop stated on national television in 1990 that tobacco radiation is probably responsible for 90% of tobacco-related cancer.

Again, as stated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, internal exposure, which is more or less the only dangerous form, does occur primarily through food, water, and inhaling contaminated air. So it's possible that you might be exposed to greater levels of this (and other) radioactive elements than was previously thought, through the aggressive use of phosphate fertilizers in food production.

Calcium phosphate, mined primarily in the Western Sahara, Saskatchewan or Florida, typically contains polonium and that's the type of NPK fertilizer typically used on tobacco fields. Ammonium phosphate is typically used in the growing of GMO crops, and the toxic byproduct from that process is fluorosilicic acid, used for water fluoridation.

WHAT HARDLY ANYONE IS SAYING IS THAT POLONIUM-210 BUILDS UP, OR BIOACCUMULATES IN THE HUMAN BODY.

THE MORE WE EAT FOODS GROWN USING PHOSPHATE FERTILIZERS, THE MORE WE RISK THE CANCERS 210-Po AND 210-Pb CAUSE.

LUNG CANCER IS JUST ONE TYPE CANCER WE CAN EXPECT FROM INGESTING 210-Po. LEUKEMIA IS ALMOST A GIVEN.

"The alpha-radioactive polonium 210 (Po-210) is one of the most powerful carcinogenic agents ... and is responsible for the histotype shift of lung cancer from squamous cell type to adenocarcinoma. According to several studies, the principal source of Po-210 is the fertilizers used in tobacco [AND OTHER] plants, which are rich in polyphosphates containing radio (Ra-226) and its decay products, lead 210 (Pb-210) and Po-210... leaves accumulate Pb-210 and Po-210 through their trichomes, and Pb-210 decays into Po-210 over time. ... Pb-210 and Po-210 reach the bronchopulmonary apparatus, especially in bifurcations of segmental bronchi. "

WHAT EVEN FEWER OF OUR "NEWS MEDIA" MENTION IS HOW RUNOFF FROM FIELDS THAT HAVE BEEN SPREAD WITH THESE RADIOACTIVE FERTILIZERS CONTAMINATES OUR WATER SUPPLIES.

AND THEN THERE'S FUKUSHIMA...ALL OUR MSMs TRY TO KEEP US FOCUSED ON THAT CESIUM, KEEP TRYING TO KEEP OUR MINDS OFF ALL THE OTHER RADIOACTIVE CRAP THAT FUKUSHIMA'S DAIICHI PLANT CONTINUOUSLY IS PUMPING INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE EVERY BLOODY DAY.

HOW MUCH POLONIUM HAS DAIICHI SENT OUR WAY?WOULD YOU BELIEVE NOBODY IS REMOTELY SURE?LIKE THE NASA STUDY SAID THAT FOUND SUCH UNUSUALLY HIGH LEVELS IN SOUTHERN STATES, POLONIUM IS ALMOST NEVER MEASURED IN THE ENVIRONMENT UNLESS A VOLCANO HAS EXPLODED ...OR "DEGASSING" OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR HAS BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE PLACE. HOW FORTUNATE FOR US THAT NASA "JUST HAPPENED" TO DISCOVER ALL THAT POLONIUM IN SOUTHERN RAIN AND SURFACE WATER, YES?

HOW UNFORTUNATE THAT THE EPA DOESN'T GIVE A TINKER'S EARTHEN DAM IF "BIG-AGRA" FEEDS US POLONIUM-210 FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, AND THAT FREQUENT CIGARETTE.

IN EVERY STUDY YOU CAN FIND ABOUT POLONIUM IN CIGARETTE SMOKE, JUST REMEMBER THIS:THAT SAME FERTILIZER IS THE ONE OF CHOICE FOR MEGA-FARMS AND GMO GROWERS AS WELL.TOBACCO IS A PLANT, SO WHATEVER APPLIES TO A TOBACCO PLANT, APPLIES TO ANYTHING WITH A LEAF!I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ALL OF YOU, BUT I AM WAY BEYOND FED UP WITH THE CONSTANT ONSLAUGHT ON MY HEALTH THAT OUR SORRY GOVERNMENT IS ALLOWING.SOMEBODY NEEDS TO "ADJUST THE ATTITUDES" OF EVERY AGENCY AND EVERY GOVERNMENT ON EARTH THAT IS ALLOWING THIS. I CONSIDER ANYONE IN GOVERNMENT, OR IN CORPORATE AMERICA WHO HAS BEEN AWARE OF THIS AND HAS CHOSEN NOT TO INFORM US OFTEN AND LOUDLY OF IT, AS ACCOMPLICES TO MURDER.

WHY THIS IS JUST NOW ATTRACTING MEDIA ATTENTION I CANNOT KNOW, BUT AT LEAST IT IS!

A 2012 STUDY PUBLISHED <HERE> , <HERE>, AND IN THE JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY (FOR ALL YOU 'PEER-REVIEWED' FREAKS) STATED UNEQUIVOCALLY THAT THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. WAS HIT WITH "ANOMALOUSLY HIGH" LEVELS OF IODINE131 AND OTHER RADIONUCLIDES THAT WILL PRESENT DISTURBING HEALTH RISKS TO THE POPULATION THERE...ACTUALLY, HERE, AS I LIVE IN A SOUTHEASTERN STATE.

HIGHLIGHTSThe Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant explosions… emitted vast quantities of radioactive materials into the environment… radioiodine (131I)… 134Cs (A SPECIFIC CESIUM THAT COMES ONLY FROM FUKUSHIMA) and 137Cs are of special concern to people because they could trigger dangerous health effects.However, data on time series depositional fluxes are still lacking, preventing… prediction of the scope of dispersion, especially in North America.Following the Fukushima accident, a high level of 131I was first detected on March 23 in a dry deposition sample at [NASA's space center].After this initial fallout, the 131I depositional flux increased up to ten- to twenty-fold during the following two weeks, varying from 218 mBq/m^2/day to 463 Bq/m^2/day.Concurrent high rainfall and high 131I fluxes were observed at the SSC site… from 97 to 337 mBq/L with an average of 217 mBq/L.In addition to precipitation samples, 131I was also detectable in surface waters from the Pearl River in Mississippi, with an activity of 6.7 mBq/L.Interestingly, the 210Po/210Pb (POLONIUM AND RADIOACTIVE LEAD) ratios of the fallout samples during the peak 131I fallout period were anomalously high… Before and after the Fukushima accident, the environmental 210Po/210Pb ratio in precipitation samples varied from 0.02 to 0.09 with an average of 0.06 at the SSC in southern Mississippi… However, the 210Po/210Pb ratio during the Fukushima fallout was up to 1.5 on March 23…To date, excess 210Po in the atmosphere was only reported for high temperature activities such as volcanic eruptions or degassing…Therefore, the anomalously high 210Po/210Pb ratios observed in the southern US were mostly derived from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant explosions which could have resulted in the fractionation of environmental 210Po and 210Pb and thus the preferential release of volatile 210Po into the atmosphere.Indeed, the anomalous 210Po/210Pb ratios were accompanied by the peak fallout of 131I… indicating that the Fukushima nuclear plant explosions mainly contributed to the anomaly in the 210Po/210Pb ratio…it seemed that regions reachable by 131I transport within two weeks from Fukushima would receive much more fallout…

AND THAT'S BEEN THE CASE.
AND IT WAS 11 DAYS, NOT 2 WEEKS.
BUT OUR GOVERNMENT HAS NOT MADE ONE MOVE TO INFORM RESIDENTS, TO TEST RESIDENTS, NOR TO ADVISE ANYONE TO GET TESTING DONE ON THEIR OWN.

THE RADIOACTIVE IODINE ALONE IS QUITE WORRISOME, BUT HERE IS WHAT HAS BEEN KEPT OUT OF AMERICAN MEDIA, WHILE BRITISH MEDIA HAS MADE A FAIRLY BIG DEAL OUT OF IT...

THAT POLONIUM... HOW DANGEROUS TO HUMAN HEALTH POLONIUM210 IS.

YOU SEE, ENGLAND HAD A "FUKUSHIMA MOMENT" BACK IN 1957, A PLACE CALLED WINDSCALE, A PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION FACILITY ON THE NORTHWEST COAST OF ENGLAND.
THERE WAS A FIRE IN THE FUEL CORE OF 'PILE 1' THERE ON OCTOBER 10th THROUGH 11th, 1957.
[YOU MAY READ MORE ABOUT THIS ACCIDENT <HERE>.]

SCIENTISTS IN ENGLAND, MUCH LIKE THOSE HERE WHOM THE MEDIA LOVE TO QUOTE, DID NOT STRAIGHTWAY TELL BRITS WHAT HIGH LEVELS OF VARIOUS RADIONUCLIDES WERE RELEASED, AND THE POLONIUM LEVELS WERE BARELY MENTIONED IN ONLY ONE BRIEF SUMMARY REPORT IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENT.

MANY REASONS FOR KEEPING THE PUBLIC IN THE DARK ABOUT THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE LEVELS AND LENGTH OF CONTAMINATION HAVE BEEN OFFERED, BUT NONE ARE VALID.

WHAT THEY KEPT SECRET WAS REPREHENSIBLE, UNETHICAL AND LED TO UNSUSPECTING DOWNWIND RESIDENTS CONTRACTING CANCERS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED HAD THEY BEEN IMMEDIATELY GIVEN PROPER EMERGENCY TREATMENT FOR THOSE LEVELS OF FALLOUT AND PREVENTED FROM CONSUMING FOOD AND WATER THAT WAS CONTAMINATED.

HERE IS WHAT CAME OF THE RESEARCH DONE ALMOST 25 YEARS AFTER THE FIRE, ESPECIALLY BY TWO SCIENTISTS, MALCOLM CRICK AND GORDON LINSLEY.

THEY REPORTED THAT ALTHOUGH THE RISKS TO POPULACE DEVELOPING THYROID CANCER DID COME FROM THE RELEASED RADIOACTIVE IODINE, 131-I, THE POLONIUM POSED ALMOST AS GREAT A RISK!

Another scientist, Roger Clarke, using updated cancer risk coefficients, estimated
that the accident had caused, or would cause, 100 fatal cancers (of which <10 are thyroid cancers due to exposure to 131I and 70, mainly lung cancers, are due to exposure to 210Po) and 90 non-fatal cancers (of which 55 are thyroid cancers due to exposure to 131I and 10 are due to exposure to 210Po)—the release of the now notorious polonium-210, which was largely ignored in early environmental assessments, was considered by Clarke to have had the greatest radiological impact of the radionuclides discharged during the Windscale accident.

Recently, John Garland, the late Arthur Chamberlain’s long-time colleague at Harwell, has refined the estimates of the quantities of radionuclides released during the fire, using original (and previously classified) documents and information on the travel of radioactive material provided by the Met Office using the NAME atmospheric dispersion model and detailed meteorological data for October 1957 .

The half-century that has elapsed since the Windscale fire has provided some perspective on the accident—the quantity of 131I released was 1000 times LESS than that released from the Chernobyl accident almost 30 years later.

Nonetheless, the Windscale accident can hardly be considered as trivial—it is rated as a Level 5 accident on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) —and it could have been a lot worse.

The extensive environmental monitoring that took place during and after the Windscale fire provided the evidence upon which the authorities decided that a milk distribution ban should be enforced in the west Cumbrian coastal strip running from 10 km north of Windscale Works to some 20 km to the south.

The health physicists had little guidance available as to what constituted an "acceptable limit" for the level of 131I activity in milk, and they derived, essentially from first principles, such a limit (0.1 µCi/L) to constrain thyroid doses, particularly to infants and young children.

A milk ban based on these ad hoc calculations was a courageous but wise decision, which prevented a significant enhancement of the local collective thyroid dose and limited individual thyroid doses.

[COMPARE THIS TO THE CLOSING OF MONITORING SITES BY THE EPA, ETC, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DAIICHI ACCIDENT AND THE FACT THAT, DESPITE HIGHER LEVELS IN U.S. MILK AND RAIN WATER THAN WERE FOUND IN ENGLAND DURING THIS ACCIDENT, NO BANS WERE ISSUED BY OUR GOVERNMENT ON ANYTHING.]

IT WAS ESTIMATED THAT THE RADIATION RELEASED BY THE WINDSCALE ACCIDENT WOULD CREATE ABOUT 1,200 NEW THYROID CANCER CASES WITHIN 5 YEARS TO 15 OR 20 YEARS.

THE UNUSUALLY HIGH NUMBERS OF LEUKEMIA CASES THERE COULD BE BLAMED ON ...THE POLONIUM!

"Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of Marie Curie, died of leukaemia in 1956 - the disease was linked to a laboratory accident that occurred more than a decade previously, when a sealed capsule of polonium exploded."

THERE IS A CHART IN A 'NEW SCIENTIST' MAGAZINE EXCERPT, MARCH 13, 1983, <FOUND HERE> THAT SHOWS THOSE UNUSUALLY HIGH LEUKEMIA CASES DOWNWIND FROM WINDSCALE.

THE KNOWN FACT THAT CANCER CAN TAKE THIS LONG TO DEVELOP AFTER EXPOSURE TO RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT IS ALSO SOMETHING OUR AMERICAN MEDIA NEVER PRINTS.FAILURE TO DO SO MEANS FEW WILL BE INFORMED OF EARLY SYMPTOMS TO WATCH FOR OR THE NEED FOR TESTING OVER THIS LONG A PERIOD OF TIME. THIS MEANS THERE WILL BE UNNECESSARY SUFFERING AND/OR DEATH BECAUSE THE PUBLIC IS INTENTIONALLY UNINFORMED.

THE 1983 STUDIES ALSO FOUND THAT THE RATE OF DEPLETION OF THE POLONIUM RELEASED FROM THE WINDSCALE STACK ALONG WITH THE 131-I, DID NOT SIGNIFICANTLY DECLINE AS MIGHT HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN SUSPECTED.

LET ME SHOW YOU HOW DESPERATELY OUR 'SCIENTISTS' HAVE TRIED TO DOWNPLAY THIS WITH JUST ONE OF HUNDREDS OF EXAMPLES I FOUND BY A SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH FOR POLONIUM:

"An international team of scientists led by Ken Buesseler of the Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has found that there is no harmful contamination of seafood by radioactive discharge from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants "except close to Japan."

"Doses from eating fish are very low off US, and in fact 500 times greater from a natural radionuclide, polonium-210, but no one worries about 210Po."

The radioactive substance can enter body by eating or drinking contaminated things, breathing contaminated air, or inhaling or ingesting bodily fluids from someone contaminated with it. A wound can also become contaminated.

"Radiation, just like with any toxic chemical, is related to dose," said Cham Dallas, a professor and toxicologist at the University of Georgia's Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense. "If you get a big dose, then you'll die sooner."

[NOTICE HE SAID "SOONER"...LIKE I'VE BEEN TRYING TO SHOW FOR YEARS NOW, THERE IS NO "SAFE" LEVEL OF RADIATION.LARGER DOSES BRING DEATHSOONER....]

And with polonium-210, a dangerous dose can be a matter of micrograms: smaller than a single speck of pepper, he said.

Radiation poisoning from polonium-210 looks like the end stage of cancer, Dallas said.

Liver and kidney damage ensue, along with extreme nausea and severe headaches. Victims often experience vomiting, diarrhea and hair loss. The alpha particles emitted from the decaying substance get absorbed in the body, which is what causes harm. Death may come in a matter of days, sometimes weeks.

NOBODY WORRIES ABOUT 210pO, KENNY?WRONG!IT'S A "NATURAL" RADIONUCLIDE? IT'S "NATURAL" BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT CALLS ALL RADIONUCLIDES THAT WERE RELEASED BY THOSE INITIAL NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS!THEY'RE NOW DUBBED "NATURAL" OR FOUND IN "NORMAL BACKGROUND RADIATION" BECAUSE THE DAMNED NUCLEAR BOMBS PUT THEM THERE!"NATURAL"? POLONIUM-210 IS EXTREMELY RARE "IN NATURE".IT IS ONE OF 25 RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES PRODUCED BY THE DECAY OF URANIUM ORE.HOW RARE IS IT? "There are only about 100 micrograms in every tonne of ore. ""The maximum safe body burden of Po-210 is only seven picograms.

A microgram of Po-210, which is no larger than a speck of dust, would certainly

deliver a fatal dose of radiation. "YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME THAT BUESSELER AND OTHERS HAVE NEVER READ THOSE WINDSCALE STUDIES, OR THE HEADLINES ABOUT 210-Po BEING USED AS A MURDER WEAPON!NOR WILL I BELIEVE THAT THE NASA 'EXPERTS' WHO RECORDED "ANOMALOUSLY HIGH LEVELS OF 210Po" WERE UNAWARE OF THEM, AS WELL AS THE RESULTING CANCERS ATTRIBUTED TO 210-Po! WHY WASN'T THE PUBLIC ALERTED JUST BECAUSE OF THE 131-I ALONE?WHY DIDN'T SOMEONE, ANYONE SOUND THE ALARM?

NASA'S STUDY MAKES IT SEEM LIKE IT WAS A GOOD THING THAT IT RAINED MORE THAN USUAL IN THAT TWO-WEEK DUMP THAT WE IN THE SOUTH GOT IN 2011.EVER HEAR OF RADIOACTIVE RAIN, GUYS?IT'D HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR US IF IT HAD NOT RAINED!

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER FOR MY YOUNGEST GRANDSON, WHO LIVES LESS THAN 4 HOURS FROM THAT NASA SPACE CENTER...AND WHO SEEMS DRIVEN SINCE HE WAS ABOUT 3 YEARS OLD TO RUN OUT IN EVERY RAIN, TILT HIS HEAD BACK, OPEN HIS MOUTH AND....

Sunday, June 28, 2015

IN MY 7 DECADES ON THIS PLANET, SO MUCH HAS CHANGED I AM OFTEN LEFT WONDERING IF THIS IS THE SAME WORLD INTO WHICH I WAS BORN.

THE FIRST TELEVISION I EVER SAW WAS A SMALL ROUND-SCREENED CONTRAPTION LESS THAN 9 INCHES IN DIAMETER.

IT LOOKED MUCH LIKE THIS:

[YEARS LATER (1956), WHEN THE FIRST COLOR TV PROGRAM AIRED, A 'BONANZA' EPISODE, THE NBC PEACOCK WAS SUDDENLY IN LIVING COLOR.
IT LEFT US BREATHLESS WITH WONDERMENT.]

HARDLY ANYONE HAD ELECTRICITY OR EVEN INDOOR PLUMBING IN THOSE DAYS, NOT IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE APPALACHIANS.

WAGONS AND HORSES (ACTUALLY, MULES, AS THEY WERE SMARTER, MY GRANDFATHER SAID) WERE STILL THE PREFERRED MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION.
PEOPLE WALKED...A LOT, AND FAR.

THE NEAREST GROCER WAS A 22-MILE TRIP, ONE WAY.
BUT THERE WERE "ROLLING STORES" WHICH PLIED THEIR WARES ALONG THE DUSTY DIRT ROADS THAT WOUND THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS...ONCE A MONTH AT FIRST, THEN, AS ROADS WERE IMPROVED, ONCE A WEEK.
THEY LOOKED LIKE THIS:

THEY CARRIED THINGS LIKE TOOLS, SEWING GOODS, POTS AND PANS, STAPLE GOODS, TOBACCO, VERY BASIC CLOTHING ITEMS, THE SEASONAL PRODUCE, EGGS AND EVEN LIVE CHICKENS.

NOT A LOT OF MONEY CHANGED HANDS WHEN THE ROLLING STORE CAME AROUND.
YOU SEE, PEOPLE OPERATED ALMOST ENTIRELY ON A BARTER SYSTEM IN THAT AREA OF THE WORLD.
PEOPLE WITH EXTRA ANYTHING TRADED THAT FOR WHATEVER SOMEONE ELSE HAD.

ABOUT THE ONLY REASON PEOPLE WENT TO TOWN WAS FOR THINGS LIKE COFFEE, SUGAR, 'DRY GOODS', MEDICINES, OR CANNING SUPPLIES.

[WELL, THERE WAS ALSO THE EVER-PRESENT 'SEARS CATALOG' ONE COULD ORDER FROM AND WAIT WEEKS FOR DELIVERY.]

THE SAME BARTERING APPLIED TO SERVICES.
A MAN WITH A TEAM OF MULES MIGHT PLOW YOUR FIELD OR HAUL OFF FELLED TREES TO THE SAWMILL IN EXCHANGE FOR A FEW CURED HAMS, OR SOME BLACKSMITHING WORK, OR HANDMADE TOOLS.

THOSE WHO RAN MILLS WOULD GRIND YOU SOME CORNMEAL OR FLOUR FOR SOME OF YOUR GARDEN PRODUCE, A FEW CHICKENS, OR WHATEVER ELSE SEEMED FAIR.

FAIR.
EVERYONE BELIEVED IN 'FAIR' BACK THEN, OR SO IT SEEMS FROM HERE IN THE "FUTURE".
A MAN'S WORD WAS GOOD ENOUGH, SO FEW WRITTEN CONTRACTS EXISTED, AND EVEN A SMALL BANK LOAN COULD BE OBTAINED BY JUST SHAKING HANDS.

THOSE WHO FAILED TO LIVE UP TO THEIR WORD WERE OSTRACIZED, "RUN OFF", OR IN SOME PHYSICAL WAY 'PERSUADED' NOT TO LIE OR GO BACK ON THEIR WORD EVER AGAIN.

EACH COMMUNITY "TOOK CARE OF ITS OWN".
THOSE IN NEED WERE HELPED.
THOSE WHO WERE SICK WERE ATTENDED TO.
PEOPLE WERE VERY MINDFUL OF ONE ANOTHER, VIGILANT, THERE WHEN YOU NEEDED THEM.

WHEN PLANTING OR HARVEST SEASONS CAME, EVERYONE PITCHED IN TOGETHER TO GET THE JOB DONE.
SCHOOLS WERE DISMISSED SO THE CHILDREN COULD GO HELP OUT ON THE FARMS.

THERE WERE 'ICE CREAM SUPPERS' WHERE MANY WOULD BRING HAND-CRANKED ICE CREAM MAKERS , EVERYONE CHIPPED IN TO BUY ICE, AND THEN WE OFTEN WISHED WE HADN'T TRIED EVERY FLAVOR THAT WAS CREATED THAT DAY.
THE SAME TYPE GATHERING WOULD ALSO SOMETIMES FEATURE WATERMELONS, PANCAKES, OR FRIED CHICKEN.
PEOPLE LIKED TO COME TOGETHER TO EAT, SEEMED LIKE.

THERE WERE ALSO BARN-RAISINGS, HOUSE-RAISINGS, CORN-SHUCKING, BEAN-SHELLING AND QUILTING 'PARTIES'.

THE FRONT PORCHES OF RURAL AMERICA IN THOSE TIMES WERE PLACES WHERE POLITICS, NEWS, AND COMMUNITY NEEDS WERE ADDRESSED LONG INTO THE NIGHT...LONG BEING 8:00PM OR SO.
FOLKS WERE UP BY SUNRISE AND USUALLY "WENT TO BED WITH THE CHICKENS".

THOSE PORCHES WERE ALSO THE PLACE TO HEAR THE "OLD STORIES", TALES OF BYGONE DAYS, WHERE ONE LEARNED ABOUT ONE'S ANCESTORS, ABOUT WHAT WAS IMPORTANT WITHIN THE FAMILY UNIT AND WHY.

WHITTLING, SLINGSHOT-MAKING, FLINTKNAPPING, HOW TO SHARPEN POCKET KNIVES WERE JUST A FEW LESSONS LEARNED ON FRONT PORCHES.
IT WAS ALSO THE PLACE TO GET A HAIRCUT.

WOMEN MIGHT BE SEEN DOING THE "CHURNING" OUT ON THOSE PORCHES WHILE VISITING WITH NEIGHBORS OR INSTRUCTING YOUNG GIRLS ON THE FINE ART OF "PICKING PECANS" (SO NOT ONE SLIVER OF SHELL WOUND UP IN THE PECAN "MEATS").

CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS SIX WERE OFTEN SENT TO "BRING HOME SOME GAME", RABBITS, SQUIRRELS, QUAIL, WHATEVER POPPED UP.
THERE WERE NO "HUNTING SEASONS" BACK THEN THAT WE WERE AWARE OF AND NO ONE NEEDED A "LICENSE" TO GO OUT AND BAG A DEER, BUT EVERYONE RESPECTED THE BREEDING SEASONS OF ALL THE "CRITTERS", KNEW WHEN THEY WERE BUSY REARING YOUNG, AND WOE BE TO THE CHILD WHO SHOT INTO A SQUIRREL'S NEST OR SHOT A SONGBIRD...OR ANYTHING ELSE THEY DID NOT INTEND TO EAT!
KIDS ALSO WENT FISHING, BERRY-PICKING, FORAGED FOR "WILD" APPLES, PLUMS, CHERRIES, PEARS, THE "POKE SALAD" PLANTS, DANDELIONS, DUG ROOTS OF CHICORY AND QUEEN ANNE'S LACE, FOUND MUSHROOMS...EVERY MORSEL COUNTED.
EACH YEAR'S GARDEN HAD TO SUPPLY AT LEAST 9 MONTHS OF FOOD.
HOME CANNING, FERMENTATION, AND DRYING WERE THE ONLY METHODS OF VEGETABLE AND FRUIT PRESERVATION.
MEATS WERE HUNG IN SMOKEHOUSES AND 'CURED', OR DRIED IN STRIPS.

IN AN 'OFF YEAR', PERHAPS DURING A LONG DRY SPELL, OR WHEN HAIL STORMS BLEW THROUGH AND RUINED CROPS, OR MAYBE CEASELESS RAINS DELAYED PLANTING, TIMES COULD GET "ROUGH", BUT NEIGHBORS HELPED NEIGHBORS AND THE COMMUNITY WAS LIKE A SINGLE UNIT, ALL CONSCIOUS OF THE NEEDS OF OTHERS.

THERE WAS EVEN A REMEDY FOR THOSE RARE FEW WHO LET PRIDE STAND IN THE WAY OF ASKING FOR HELP, OR TAKING FROM OTHERS.
WE CALLED IT "POUNDING".
USUALLY, CHILDREN WERE GIVEN THE TASK OF TAKING A POUND OF JUST ABOUT ANYTHING THAT COULD BE WRAPPED IN A BUNDLE AND QUIETLY PLACING THE PARCEL AT THE DOOR OF WHOMEVER WAS BEING "POUNDED".
THE CHILD WOULD THEN HIDE WHEREVER HE/SHE COULD AND TOSS A SMALL STONE AT THE DOOR, OR A PINECONE, WHATEVER, AND SEE TO IT THAT THE PARCEL WAS RETRIEVED.
ONCE THE RECIPIENT WAS BACK INSIDE, THE CHILD WOULD RUN HOME.
USUALLY, SEVERAL WOULD MAKE A BASKET FULL OF "POUNDS", ALL OF WHICH WERE MORE CONVENIENTLY (AND MORE SAFELY) LEFT AT ONE TIME.
AFTER ALL, EVERY HOME WAS WELL-ARMED BACK THEN.
NO ONE WAS EVER HURT WHILE DOING THIS, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, BUT I THINK EVERYONE RECOGNIZED THE POSSIBILITY.

WOMEN MADE TALLOW CANDLES AND THERE WERE KEROSENE LANTERNS FOR LIGHTING.
COOKING AND HEATING DEPENDED ON WOOD-BURNING STOVES,

EVERYONE USED HOMEMADE LYE SOAP FOR CLEANING EVERYTHING AND FOR BATHING.
A HUGE WASH POT AND SCRUB BOARD TOOK CARE OF LAUNDRY DAY NICELY, BUT THE WRINGER TYPE WASHING MACHINES WERE EVERY WOMAN'S DREAM.
CLOTHESLINES STRETCHED BEHIND ALL HOUSES, AND FAR, FAR OUT BACK WERE THOSE INFAMOUS 'OUTHOUSES'.

WHY BRING ALL THIS UP?
IT SOUNDS LIKE MERELY A "SENIOR CITIZEN'S REMINISCING".
IN NO WAY AM I SUGGESTING THOSE WERE "THE GOOD OLD DAYS" FOR THEY WERE SOME VERY TRYING TIMES.NOTHING CAME EASILY.

BUT, YOU SEE, BACK THEN, THE THINGS WE DEPENDED ON DAILY WERE SIMPLE AND READILY OBTAINED.
WHAT ONE DIDN'T 'RAISE', WHAT ONE COULDN'T BARTER FOR OR COULD NOT AFFORD TO BUY OUTRIGHT, ONE DID WITHOUT.
ODDLY, I ALMOST NEVER HEARD ANYONE COMPLAIN ABOUT NOT HAVING "STORE-BOUGHT" CLOTHES, TOYS, FURNITURE OR ANYTHING ELSE.

THERE WAS NO AIR CONDITIONING, NO CENTRAL HEAT.
WINTERS WERE BITTER, SUMMERS WERE OFTEN OPPRESSIVELY HOT.

BY THE TIME I WAS SEVEN, WE HAD MOVED AWAY FROM ALL THAT AND INTO THE "MODERN AGE", BUT I GOT TO GO BACK FOR SUMMER VACATIONS, AND THE ENTIRE FAMILY GOT TOGETHER ON HOLIDAYS.

STILL, LIFE WAS NEVER AGAIN AS SIMPLE.
AND TODAY, AS I LOOK ABOUT ME, I FIND NOTHING I CAN TRULY COUNT ON.
THE THINGS WE DEPEND ON IN OUR 21st CENTURY WORLD ARE NOT DEPENDABLE.

A HEAVY STORM BARS INTERNET ACCESS AS ONLY SATELLITE INTERNET IS AVAILABLE HERE IN THE "STICKS".
AN ELECTRICAL STORM WILL ALMOST INVARIABLY ROB US OF ELECTRICITY FOR AT LEAST HOURS, AND AN ICE STORM SEES US SANS POWER FOR DAYS.
NO WAY TO RECHARGE CELL PHONES, NO WAY TO HAVE ENOUGH LIGHT TO READ BY, UNLESS ONE HAS GOOD LANTERNS, AND THERE GOES THE REFRIGERATOR, WASHER AND DRYER AND THE WELL PUMP.

PROPANE YIELDS HEAT AND A WAY TO COOK, BUT OH, THE CONVENIENCE OF ELECTRICITY!
THEN, BAM!, ELECTRICITY FAILS.

COMMUNICATION DEVICES FAIL.
INTERNET FAILS.

NOTHING, NOT EVEN BATTERIES, SEEM TO LAST FOR LONG ANYMORE.
WE HAVE A USE-IT-ONCE-AND-TOSS-IT SOCIETY.
WE EXPECT THINGS TO WEAR OUT QUICKLY.

WHEN I MADE MY LAST MOVE, AWAY FROM THE BLUE RIDGE OF NORTH CAROLINA, I GAVE AWAY A HUGE OLD 32" SCREEN COLOR TV THAT WAS MADE IN 1984. I SAY HUGE BECAUSE THE HOUSING IT SET IN WEIGHED A TON AND IT TOOK UP ABOUT 20 SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR SPACE.
IT WORKED AS PERFECTLY IN 2014 AS IT DID RIGHT OUT OF THE FACTORY, GREAT COLORS, CRYSTAL CLEAR.
I HAVE THREE VERY OLD RADIOS, ALL FROM THE LATE 1940s TO EARLY 1950s, AND ALL WORK LIKE A CHARM.

FROM CUTLERY TO TOOLS TO HUNTING, CAMPING AND FISHING GEAR, MUCH OF WHAT I HAVE WAS BUILT TO LAST, AND IT HAS, AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO.

THE THINGS I HAVE THAT WERE CREATED AFTER ABOUT 1970 NEVER LAST LONG.
I HAVE LEARNED NOT TO DEPEND ON ANYTHING THAT ONE CAN BUY NEW TODAY.
IT SEEMS THAT THE MORE WE PAY FOR SOMETHING, THE LESS DEPENDABLE IT IS!

THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR HOUSING.

NEIGHBORHOODS.
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW ALL YOUR NEIGHBORS, EVEN ALL WHO LIVE ON YOUR STREET, OR EVEN ON YOUR SIDE OF THE STREET?
COULD YOU DEPEND ON THEM IN AN EMERGENCY?
COULD THEY DEPEND ON YOU?

WOULD YOU KNOW IF ONE OF THEM WAS ILL, OR EVEN HAD PASSED AWAY?

ALMOST ALL THAT WE CURRENTLY DEPEND ON HAS FAILED...

OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM, OUR ECONOMY, OUR NATIONAL HONOR AND SENSE OF PRIDE IN OUR COUNTRY, THAT "MADE IN AMERICA" LABEL, HOW WE SEE OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, OUR MILITARY, OUR LESSENING CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS, FROM FAMILY MEMBERS TO NEIGHBORS TO THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY, SEEM TO HAVE ALL SUFFERED TERRIBLE FAILURES.

I CAN EVEN LOOK ABOUT AND SEE THOSE WHO ONCE SAID THEY DEPENDED ON GOD OR SOME OTHER DEITY NOT DOING SO ANY LONGER.
[IN THAT CASE, I HAVE TO IMAGINE THEIR OWN FAITH FAILED.]

WHAT THAT WE HAVE COME TO RELY ON HASN'T FAILED US ?
WAS IT THE COMPLEXITY OF THE MATERIAL THINGS WE USE, OR THE SHODDINESS OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION THAT INITIATED SUCH WIDE-REACHING AND EXPANDING FAILURES IN THOSE?

WAS IT OUR INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS TO CONTINUE TRADITIONS AND HOLD ONTO OUR IDEOLOGIES, OUR BELIEF SYSTEMS, OUR DESIRE/DEMAND THAT THINGS BE FAIR, DEPENDABLE, JUST, HONORABLE, GOOD FOR ALL THAT CAUSED OUR SOCIETY TO FAIL?

WAS IT OUR UNWILLINGNESS TO BUY ONLY WHAT WE CAN AFFORD THAT CREATED THIS ECONOMIC MESS WE SEE?

WHAT HAPPENED?
AND HOW DID IT HAPPEN SO QUICKLY?

IT SEEMS ONLY YESTERDAY THAT AMERICA WAS "THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH" IN JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY'S OPINION.
TODAY, MOST NATIONS LITERALLY DESPISE AMERICA.
AND SOME OF US CAN SEE WHY THEY DO!

THINGS HAVE GONE STEADILY DOWNHILL!

EVEN INTO THE 1960s, ANY HIGH SCHOOL KID WITH AN AFTER-SCHOOL PART-TIME JOB COULD AFFORD A CAR.
TODAY, JOBS HAVE MOVED OVERSEAS AND A CAR TODAY COSTS FAR MORE THAN A REALLY NICE HOME DID IN 1965.
NOR ARE TODAY'S AMERICAN-MADE VEHICLES BUILT TO LAST.
OTHER NATIONS BUY VEHICLES THAT ARE MORE DEPENDABLE THAN OURS, NOT "MADE IN AMERICA".

ABOUT THAT BUSINESS OF MOVING JOBS "OFFSHORE"...
LOOK HOW NAFTA AND EVERY OTHER "TRADE AGREEMENT" HAS FAILED AMERICAN WORKERS!NAFTA VIRTUALLY THREW AMERICAN JOBS AWAY!

THIS LATEST TRADE DEAL SCHEME THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WANTS CONGRESS TO AGREE TO, AS CONGRESS HAS AGREED TO ALL THE OTHERS, BY THE WAY, WILL BE ANOTHER NIGHTMARE FOR THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT EVERY MOVE MADE UP ON CAPITOL HILL IS MADE TO DRIVE ANOTHER NAIL IN AMERICA'S COFFIN, TO GIVE BIG CORPORATIONS IMPETUS TO SCREW-OVER AMERICAN WORKERS, PROVIDE ALL OF US WITH POORLY MADE, UNDEPENDABLE, SHORT-LIVED GOODS AT HIGHER AND HIGHER PRICES (THOUGH THEY'RE PAYING SLAVE WAGES OVERSEAS AND RAKING IN MEGA-PROFITS!), AND TAX THE SUPREME HELL OUT OF ALL OF US TO PAY FOR THE FAILURE OF THE PATHETIC ECONOMY THAT CONGRESS ITSELF HAS CREATED, AND ALLOWED THE FEDERAL RESERVE TO DICTATE.

WHEN ALL THAT WE ONCE DEPENDED UPON HAS FAILED, AND IT HAS, NOW WHAT?

WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

WHAT DO WE DO WITH FAILURES IN GOVERNMENT, FAILURES IN BUSINESS TO KEEP JOBS HERE IN AMERICA AND PAY A DECENT WAGE, FAILURES IN SHODDY GOODS AND SERVICES, FAILURES IN OUR MEDICAL PROFESSION WHICH IS SO INTERCONNECTED TO PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES THAT WE DARE NOT EVER REALLY TRUST THEM, FAILURES IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ('LITTLE JOHNNY' STILL CAN'T READ...OR BALANCE A CHECKBOOK!), OUR MORAL AND ETHICAL FABRIC, OUR GLOBAL STANDING?

IT ISN'T "ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL" HERE IN AMERICA ANYMORE.
IT'S "I'M GETTING MINE ANY WAY I CAN AND SCREW EVERYBODY ELSE!"

THERE'S NO MORE "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...ONLY FRAGMENTS OF A BROKEN REPUBLIC.

WHEN WHAT WE ONCE DEPENDED UPON AS THE CORE, THE VERY HEART OF OUR AMERICAN SOCIETY, HAS FAILED, SEEMS TO ME THAT ALL WE CAN HOPE TO DEPEND ON IS MAYBE ONE ANOTHER.
[I INTENTIONALLY LEAVE OUT ANY RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION IN ALL THIS,]

WELL, IF THE CIVIL WAR CONTINUES, ONE "CLASS" AGAINST ANOTHER, ONE RACE AGAINST ANOTHER, ONE 'PARTY' AGAINST ANOTHER, ETC, I RECKON WE'LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE...SEE HOW LONG IT TAKES US TO SINK, BASICALLY.

MAYBE WE SHOULD LEARN TO "NEED" LESS?

MAYBE WE COULD RE-LEARN HOW TO BE INDEPENDENT COMMUNITIES AGAIN?

MAYBE WE COULD SOMEHOW SEE OUR WAY CLEAR TO TRUST ONE ANOTHER JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT BROKEN TRUST WOULD BE A HUGE NO-NO?

IT'S HORRIFIC TO THINK, " WHAT IF THE GRID GOES DOWN, WHAT IF SOME CRAZY HITS US WITH AN EMP OR A NUKE, OR DUSTS OUR CITIES OR WATER SUPPLIES WITH DEADLY PATHOGENS, OR WHAT IF THE DOLLAR FAILS COMPLETELY, CHINA CALLS IN ALL HER TICKETS, THE PREZ DECLARES MARTIAL LAW...."
YEAH, IT'S A LONG LIST OF "WHAT-IFS" BUT I TOLD YOU THAT WHEN I DID THE BLOGS ON "WHAT IF ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE".

I JUST HOPE EACH ONE IS AS PREPARED AS ANYONE CAN BE.
WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THINGS A BIT MORE CAREFULLY, MAYBE?
PLAN AHEAD?
WOULD THAT HELP?

AS I SAY PERHAPS FAR TOO OFTEN, BUT MAINLY REPEAT AS A REMINDER TO MYSELF...

IN THIS LIFE, WE EITHER LEARN OR WE PERISH.
MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK INTO LEARNING MORE?

PERISH DOESN'T LOOK VERY INVITING FROM HERE.

WHEN ALL WE DEPEND ON FAILS, AND THERE'S JUST THAT PERSON IN THE MIRROR, HOW DEPENDABLE IS THAT PERSON?

HOW ANYONE CAN THINK THE WAR AGAINST 'AMERICAN INDIANS' IS OVER HERE IN THE U.S., I DO NOT KNOW.

THE 'INDIAN WARS', THE CAMPAIGN TO ERADICATE THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES WILL NEVER BE OVER UNTIL THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT LOOKS OUT AND SEES NO 'INDIANS'.

WE'LL GET TO THE THEFT OF INDIAN LANDS, MONEY AND RESOURCES TODAY IN JUST A FEW PARAGRAPHS, BUT,LOOKING BACK JUST A FEW DECADES, AND KNOWING THIS IS STILL ONGOING DESPITE WHAT YOU'RE TOLD, LET'S TALK STERILIZATION OF SAVAGES.

IT'S AN UNWRITTEN LAW THAT INDIGENOUS TRIBES MUST BE ELIMINATED.THE FEDS WANT THEIR LAND, THE RESOURCES ON AND UNDER THOSE LANDS AND THEY KNOW HOW TO STERILIZE A 'CAPTIVE AUDIENCE'.

WHITE PEOPLE ARE BLISSFULLY UNAWARE OF WHAT GOES ON ON THOSE 'INDIAN RESERVATIONS', AND DON'T KNOW JACK ABOUT THAT WONDERFUL 'INDIAN HEALTH CARE'.

ASK A 'NATIVE' ABOUT INDIAN HEALTH CARE, BUT ASK FROM BEYOND THE RANGE OF ANY WEAPON.IT PISSES ANYONE OFF WHO HAS EVER BEEN SUBJECTED TO IT.IT'S A NIGHTMARE.AS CLOSE AS WE CAN TELL, THE SECRETIVE STERILIZATION OF ESPECIALLY INDIGENOUS FEMALES BEGAN IN EARNEST IN 1972, AT LEAST IT CRANKED WAY UP THEN, BUT THIS "BUSH PROGRAM", HIS FAMILY ACT WAS INSTITUTED IN 1970. GEORGE H.W. BUSH WAS AT THAT TIME A U.S. CONGRESSMAN, LEST WE FORGET.

Let's look look at the sterilization policies and philosophies that were at work within the IHS-PHS (good old Indian Health Services), Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) from 1972 to 1976. It was during this four-year period that the greatest number of Indian women were put under the knife for a plethora of medical, social, and monetary reasons.

In 1955, IHS was transferred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Public Health Service (PHS).To date, an 'Indian' client will get "health services" that vary every time that patient walks into an IHS facility: ...what's 'available' to him/her will vary from day-to-day and year-to-year, depending on UNPUBLISHED 'discretionary decisions' made by Indian Health Service officials and commitments and conditions contained in often voluminous 'appropriation hearings' (SEE: American Indian Journal, 1977: 23). This alone makes the IHS system ripe for mismanagement of policies, funding, and any real hope of staff supervision. Knowing that, it should come as no surprise to learn that IHS has been the subject of a number of investigations.A GREAT NUMBER!

Dr. Connie Uri, a Choctaw Indian physician working at the Claremore, Oklahoma IHS facilities just happened to notice in hospital records there that a large amount of sterilization surgeries had been performed. Wondering what was going on, she began conducting interviews with the women involved and found that many had received the operation a day or two after childbirth. In the month of July 1974 alone there were 48 sterilizations performed and several hundred had already been conducted in the last two years. She saw that both tubal ligation and hysterectomies were used in these sterilizations. Dr. Uri commented: "In normal medical practice, hysterectomies are rare in women of childbearing age unless there is cancer or other medical problems" (SEE: Akwesasne Notes, 1974: 22). "In one study conducted on the Navajo Reservation and sponsored by the PHS, researchers (who may have ignored the reports of such questionable sterilization procedures, or subtly adjusted their language to satisfy their sponsors) reported:

From 1972 to 1978 we observe a 130 per cent increase in the number of induced abortions performed. During this time the ratio of abortions per 1,000 deliveries has increased from approximately 34 to 77 (an increase of 126 per cent) (Temkin-Greener, 1981: 405). While not exactly within the confines of sterilization, the numbers indicate that the family planning program on the Navajo Reservation was definitely acquiring federal funds to carry on such a massive project.

The statistics concerning Navajo sterilization are just as interesting:

Between 1972 and 1978 the percentage of interval sterilization has more than doubled from 15.1 per cent in 1972 to 30.7 per cent in 1978 (Temkin-Greener, 1981: 406).

The report itself is clinical and methodical; however, the researchers did comment slightly about the relationship between patient and physician: Older women who become pregnant may be much less concerned about reducing their childbearing and may do so primarily when they are influenced by health care providers (Temkin-Greener, 1981: 406). There is room for speculation concerning how much influence these providers stressed in light of previously mentioned charges of harassment and deceit. Once the word of sterilization spread through Indian Country, some tribal leaders carried on their own investigation. Marie Sanchez, a tribal judge of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, interviewed 50 women, 26 of whom reported that they were sterilized. Besides the questionable surgery techniques being allowed to take place on young Native women, she also found charges by some patients of harassment in obtaining consent forms. HOW IHS WORKERS FORCED CONSENT

In an incident of harassment at the Claremore facility, one young woman was told by social workers and other hospital personnel that she was a bad mother and they would have to take away her children. They would then place the children in foster homes if she did not agree to the surgery. One doctor told several women that they each had several children and it was time they stopped having children; others were told that they could still have children after the operation (Dillingham, 1977: 28). Coercive sterilization can be defined by one or more of the following: ~caused by outright deceit; ~offering sterilization as a means to escape further obligation to an institution, such as an asylum; ~threats to person; ~sterilization of minors, or mentally or physically disabled persons; ~failing to explain procedure in a language that the patient understands (SEE: Trombley, 1988: 1). As the newly appointed director of Claremore IHS stated: "Even if many of these operations were done at the request of the patient, it is all too obvious that there is little or no attention given to proper counseling as to the serious implications of such a decision" (Akwesasne, 1974: 22). Coercive sterilization can be defined by examples of testimony, but the burden of proof is on the patient that has her signature on the bottom of the page.[AND WHO WILL TAKE THE WORD OF AN "INJUN" OVER A WHITE HEALTHCARE WORKER IN COURT, RIGHT?]It is important here to be aware that the values that American Indians have toward the number of children a woman bears are quite different than that of white America.

It is also enlightening to know that NOT ONE VICTIM of this secret sterilization program was EVER interviewed by the Government accounting office, by Congress, or by any federal court....NOT ONE!

Congress passed laws in 1975 making it punishable by fines and/or penalties for "...any officer or employee of the United States," or others using federal funds who "...[coerces} or endeavors to coerce any person to undergo an abortion or sterilization" (SEE: DHEW report, 1978: 9). The fact that the U.S. has no prior law concerning the punishment of coercive sterilization underlines the seemingly reckless abandon that physicians had in sterilizing Indian women.The conclusion of the GAO investigation reported that IHS consent procedures lacked the basic elements of informed consent, particularly informing a patient orally of the advantages and disadvantages of sterilization. Furthermore, the consent form had only a summary of the oral presentation, and finally the form was lacking the information usually located at the top of the page notifying the patient that no federal benefits would be taken away if they did not accept sterilization (SEE: Wagner, 1977: 75).I'LL GIVE YOU A MINUTE TO GUESS WHAT BLOODY GOOD THAT DID.WHEN YOU'VE FINISHED LAUGHING, PECK ON THE SCREEN.

IT DID NO GOOD.NONE.BOTTOM LINE IN THIS CHAPTER OF THE WAR ON INDIANS IN MODERN TIMES? The 3,406 women that appeared so often in government reports were those taken from ONLY FOUR health service areas: Aberdeen, SD, Albuquerque, NM, Oklahoma City, OK, and Phoenix, AZ.All four service units were found to be "...generally not in compliance with government regulations requiring informed consent" (SEE:Dillingham, 1977: 27). Senator Abourezk himself stated that:

"Given the small American Indian population, the 3,400 Indian sterilization figure would be compared to sterilizing 452,000 non-Indian women [out of 55,000 Indian women of childbearing age]" (SEE: Wagner, 1977: 75).

However, the Senator failed to realize that the figure represented only four service areas. The estimate of total sterilizations was actually around 3,000 per year for four years.12,000 out of that 55,000!

Some Nations wrote to Washington saying it would take them 100 years to recover from the loss of so many fertile young women.I'm sure Washington celebrated.BUT THOSE WERE NOT THE ONLY YEARS, NOT BY A LONG SHOT! IN 1979 THIS REARED ITS HEAD AGAIN!AND AGAIN IN 1995!

SOME CRIED "GENOCIDE!" BECAUSE THE STERILIZATIONS HAD "MYSTERIOUSLY SOMEHOW" CONTINUED. AND NOW ADD EXTREMELY HIGH RATES OF ABORTIONS, "MEDICALLY NECESSARY" OF COURSE.AGAIN, YOUNG WOMEN EITHER DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE TERMINOLOGY OR WERE COERCED BY BEING TOLD THEY COULD DIE, AMONG OTHER THINGS. THANKS TO THE GEORGE H.W. BUSH "PROGRAM", AT LEAST 42% OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE HAD BEEN STERILIZED BY 1982!"From the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide emerged a list of acts that constitute genocide. Article II states:

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as...imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group... (SEE: Whalen, 1989: 169).

It is interesting to point out that these measures were adopted by the United Nations Center for Human Rights in 1948, but were NOT, AS IN NOT, adopted by the United States until 1988.

GENOCIDE...IT CONTINUES.NO DOUBT ABOUT WHO THE TARGETS ARE.ONWARD TO THE CURRENT WAR ON INDIGENOUS TRIBES IN THE USA. IF SOMEONE, SOMEHOW, GOT THEIR HANDS ON YOUR FAMILY'S BURIAL PLACE OR YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP AND SOLD IT TO SOMEONE ELSE SO THEY COULD DIG IT UP, BULLDOZE IT OR TURN IT INTO A THEME PARK, A CAMPGROUND, WHATEVER THEY PLEASED, WOULD YOU JUST SAY, "OKAY, THAT'S FINE"?WOULD YOU SEE IT, PERHAPS, AS AN ATTACK ON YOUR FAMILY?

WHAT IF YOU WOKE UP ONE MORNING TO THE SOUND OF FEDERAL TRUCKS DELIVERING NUCLEAR WASTE TO BE DUMPED IN YOUR BACKYARD?

WHAT IF YOUR GRANDMOTHER CAME CRAWLING UP YOUR DRIVEWAY, BEATEN AND BLEEDING, AND TOLD YOU SOMEONE HAD ATTACKED HER, KILLED HER FLOCK OF SHEEP AND DESTROYED HER HOUSE TO MAKE HER SIGN OVER THE DEED TO THEM?[THIS HAPPENED LAST IN 2014, DURING THE BIA's "FINAL SOLUTION" CRACKDOWN ON THE HOPI/NAVAJO LAND DISPUTE.]

SUCH THINGS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME TO "NATIVE AMERICANS"....TODAY.Here are just a very few of the current wars being waged against Indigenous People.EXAMPLE #1, 2001 Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty and Nuclear Waste

Nevadans and Utahans living downwind and downstream from nuclear weapons testing, uranium mining, and radioactive waste dumping have suffered immensely during the Nuclear Age. But even in the "nuclear sacrifice zones" of the desert Southwest, it is Native Americans--from Navajo uranium miners to tribal communities targeted with atomic waste dumps-- who have borne the brunt of both the front and back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle.The tiny Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians Reservation in Utah is targeted for a very big nuclear waste dump. Private Fuel Storage (PFS), a limited liability corporation representing eight powerful nuclear utilities, wants to "temporarily" store 40,000 tons of commercial high-level radioactive waste (nearly the total amount that presently exists in the U.S.) next to the two-dozen tribal members who live on the small reservation. The PFS proposal is the latest in a long tradition of targeting Native American communities for such dumps. But there is another tradition on the targeted reservations as well–fighting back against blatant environmental racism, and winning. Skull Valley Goshute tribal member Margene Bullcreek leads Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia (or OGD, Goshute for "Mountain Community"), a grassroots group of tribal members opposed to the dump. In addition to many other activities, OGD has filed an environmental justice contention before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB).Both the federal government and the commercial nuclear power industry have targeted Native American reservations for such dumps for many years. In 1987, the U.S. Congress created the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator in an effort to open a federal "monitored retrievable storage site" for high-level nuclear waste. The Negotiator sent letters to every federally recognized tribe in the country, offering hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars to tribal council governments for first considering and then ultimately hosting the dump. Out of the hundreds of tribes approached, the Negotiator eventually courted about two dozen tribal councils in particular.Resistance from members within the targeted tribes, however, prevented the proposed dumps from opening. Grace Thorpe, founder of the National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans and an emeritus member of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service board of directors, rallied her fellow tribal members and defeated the dump targeted at her own Sauk and Fox reservation in Oklahoma. Tribal members on other targeted reservations turned to Thorpe, and to such Native-led groups as Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and Honor the Earth, to learn how to organize their community to resist the federal nuclear waste dump.The Negotiator eventually set his sights on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. But tribal member Rufina Marie Laws spearheaded her community’s resistance against her own tribal council and the Negotiator, thwarting the dump. After having failed to open the intended dump, Congress defunded and dissolved the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator in 1994.The commercial nuclear power industry, however, picked up where the Negotiator had left off. Led by Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy), 8 nuclear utility companies formed a coalition that attempted to overcome the resistance at Mescalero. A tribal referendum, however, doomed the dump to eventual failure. The utility coalition regrouped as Private Fuel Storage, and then turned to the Skull Valley Goshutes in Utah, another community that had been on the Negotiator’s target list.At the same time, the nuclear power industry contributed large sums to Congressional and Presidential campaigns, and lobbied hard on Capitol Hill to establish a "temporary storage site" at the Nevada nuclear weapons test site, not far from the proposed federal permanent underground dump for high-level atomic waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Both these proposed "temporary" and permanent dump sites would be on Western Shoshone land, as affirmed by the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. Yucca Mountain is sacred to the Western Shoshone, and their National Council has long campaigned to prevent nuclear dumping there.Several incarnations of the nuclear power industry-backed "Mobile Chernobyl" bill appeared between 1995 and 2000. They were so dubbed because, if enacted, they would have launched the beginning of tens of thousands of dangerous irradiated nuclear fuel shipments to Nevada. Grassroots efforts across the country, combined with Nevadan leadership in Congress and an unwavering veto pledge by President Clinton, has successfully stopped "Mobile Chernobyl" in its tracks on Capitol Hill for the past five years.Having lost its bid to "temporarily" store its deadly wastes on Western Shoshone land near Yucca Mountain, nuclear utilities have re-focused their hopes for "interim" relief on Nevada’s neighbor, Utah. PFS must have done its homework: it would be hard to find a community more economically and politically vulnerable than the Skull Valley Goshutes to the Faustian bargain of getting "big bucks" in exchange for hosting the nation’s deadliest poisons.Just 25 tribal members live on the tiny Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians Reservation, an hour’s drive west and south from Salt Lake City in Tooele County, Utah. The remaining 100 Band members live in surrounding towns in Tooele County, in Salt Lake City, and elsewhere. The reservation is already surrounded by toxic industries. Magnesium Corporation is the nation’s worst air polluter, belching voluminous chlorine gas and hydrochloric acid clouds; hazardous waste landfills and incinerators dot the map; with a name straight out of Orwell’s 1984, Envirocare dumps "low level" nuclear waste in the next valley and is applying to accept atomic trash hundreds of times more radioactive than its present license allows. Dugway Proving Ground has tested VX nerve gas, leading in 1968 to the "accidental" killing of 6,400 sheep grazing in Skull Valley, whose toxic carcasses were then buried on the reservation without the tribe’s knowledge, let alone approval. The U.S. Army stores half its chemical weapon stockpile nearby, and is burning it in an incinerator prone to leaks; jets from Hill Air Force Base drop bombs on Wendover Bombing Range, and fighter crashes and misfired missiles have struck nearby. Tribal members’ health is undoubtedly adversely impacted by this alphabet soup of toxins. Now PFS wants to add high-level nuclear waste to the mix.This toxic trend in Tooele County has left the reservation with almost no alternative economy. Pro-dump tribal chairman Leon Bear summed up his feelings: "We can’t do anything here that’s green or environmental. Would you buy a tomato from us if you knew what’s out here? Of course not. In order to attract any kind of development, we have to be consistent with what surrounds us."Targeting a tiny, impoverished Native American community, already so disproportionately overburdened with toxic exposures, to host the United States’ nuclear waste dump would seem a textbook violation of environmental justice. But the nuclear utilities did not let such considerations slow down their push for the PFS dump on the Skull Valley Reservation.

The lease agreement signed by Chairman Bear and PFS requires that the tribe "use its sovereign nation status to support and promote this Lease and Project," and that the tribe "not, at any time, pass any law, rule or regulation which could adversely affect or burden this Lease or the Project…" (Lease between Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians and PFS, May 20, 1997, p. 18). The lease also forbids the tribe from setting any environmental protection standards that are stronger than federal standards (p.24). The agreement, in effect, forfeits control of the reservation dumpsite to PFS, and regulation to the federal NRC. "The nuclear industry is using Native land and Native people as a loophole to keep their reactors running," says Honor the Earth spokesperson Winona LaDuke. "The nuclear industry needs to be called to the table for seeking a political solution to the deadly environmental problem of nuclear waste they created by targeting isolated Native communities. It’s bad policy and it’s wrong.""Our reservation is sacred. This is the only land we have–the only thing the government left us after taking most of our country," Bullcreek said.Radioactivity, because of its disproportionate harmful impact on Native Americans over the past 60 years, has been called the "smallpox blanket of the Nuclear Age," referring to the practice of giving infested blankets to tribes to wipe them out and clear their lands for expropriation."[IF YOU CAN'T STERILIZE THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE, THEN NUKE 'EM, RIGHT?]EXAMPLE #2, MAY, 2015, NEW YORK TIMES

"ABOUT an hour east of Phoenix, near a mining town called Superior, men, women and children of the San Carlos Apache tribe have been camped out at a place called Oak Flat for more than three months, protesting the LATEST assault on their culture. Three hundred people, mostly Apache, marched 44 miles from tribal headquarters to begin this occupation on Feb. 9. The campground lies at the core of an ancient Apache holy place, where coming-of-age ceremonies, especially for girls, have been performed for many generations, along with traditional acorn gathering. It belongs to the public, under the multiple-use mandate of the Forest Service, and has had special protections since 1955, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower decreed the area closed to mining — which, like cattle grazing, is otherwise common in national forests — because of its cultural and natural value. President Richard M. Nixon’s Interior Department in 1971 renewed this ban.Despite these protections, in December 2014, Congress promised to hand the title for Oak Flat over to a private, Australian-British mining concern. A fine-print rider trading away the Indian holy land was added at the last minute to the must-pass military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act.By doing this, Congress has handed over a sacred Native American site to a foreign-owned company for what may be the first time in our nation’s history.The Apache are occupying Oak Flat to protest this action — to them, a sacrilegious and craven sell-off of a place “where Apaches go to pray,” in the words of the San Carlos Apache tribal chairman, Terry Rambler. The site will doubtless be destroyed for any purpose other than mining; Resolution Copper Mining will hollow out a vast chamber that, when it caves in, will leave a two-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep pit. The company itself has likened the result of its planned mining at Oak Flat to that of a nearby meteor crater.The land grab was sneakily anti-democratic even by congressional standards. For more than a decade, the parcel containing Oak Flat has been coveted by Rio Tinto, Resolution’s parent company — which already mines on its own private land in the surrounding area — for the high-value ores beneath it.The swap — which will trade 5,300 acres of private parcels owned by the company to the Forest Service and give 2,400 acres including Oak Flat to Resolution so that it can mine the land without oversight — had been attempted multiple times by Arizona members of Congress on behalf of the company. (Among those involved was Rick Renzi, a former Republican representative who was sent to federal prison in February for three years for corruption related to earlier versions of the land-transfer deal.) It always failed in Congress because of lack of support. But this time was different. This time, the giveaway language was slipped onto the defense bill by Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona at the 11th hour. The tactic was successful only because, like most last-minute riders, it bypassed public scrutiny."[TRANSLATION: THE BASTARDS HID IT.]OH, BTW, Rio Tinto has been called out in the past for environmental devastation.DEVASTATION DOESN'T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT!AND McCAIN IS A RENOWNED BIGOT AND RACIST. “Why is this place sacred?” said Wendsler Nosie Sr., a former chairman of the San Carlos Apache, in a recent interview with Cronkite News. “No difference to Mount Sinai. How the holy spirit came to be.” If you don’t want to take his word for it, the archaeological record at Oak Flat contains abundant evidence that the Apache have been here “since well before recorded history,” according to congressional testimony by the Society for American Archaeology.If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site, or for that matter Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill — no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. Clearly the Arizona congressional delegation isn’t afraid of a couple of million conquered natives.The truth is that for Mr. McCain, Mr. Flake and others who would allow this precious public land to be destroyed, it’s not only the Indians who are invisible. The rest of us are also ghosts, remnants of a quaint idea of democracy.The deal is an impressive new low in congressional corruption, unworthy of our country’s ideals no matter what side of the aisle you’re on. It’s exactly the kind of cynical maneuvering that has taught the electorate to disrespect politicians — a disdain for government that hurts everyone. If ever there was a time for Congress to prove its moral mettle to the public, this is that time. The rider should be repealed. "THANKS, NYT, BUT THIS IS STILL WAR, AND CONGRESS STILL LIKES TO PUT THE DAMNED 'SAVAGES' IN THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE...BENEATH A BOOT. ADD TO STERILIZATION AND NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING, TAKING BACK WHAT TINY BIT OF TRIBAL LANDS EVEN THE SMALLEST TRIBE HAS.

AND AMERICANS POINT FINGERS AT ISRAEL AND SCREAM "GIVE BACK THE LAND!" HERE'S A NEWSFLASH FOR YOU...ISRAEL IS IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHAT AMERICA'S INDIGENOUS NATIONS ARE HERE...THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS! ACTUALLY, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW, IN AMERICA, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE THE ONLY 'RACE', CULTURE, GROUP OF CITIZENS WHO MUST PROVE THAT THEY ARE WHAT THEY SAY THEY ARE.THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CLEVERLY CONVINCED NATIONS TO CREATE "BLOOD QUANTUMS", PERCENTAGES OF INDIGENOUS "BLOOD" WHICH EACH 'TRIBE' FOUND ACCEPTABLE.IN SOME TRIBES, ONE CAN BE AS LITTLE AS 1/16th AND STILL QUALIFY AS A TRIBAL MEMBER.OTHERS REQUIRE 1/4th, AND SO ON...

ONCE ESTABLISHED, BLOOD QUANTUM BEGAN WIPING OUT THE "REAL INDIANS" AS MORE AND MORE HAD TO MARRY OUTSIDE THE TRIBE OR RISK MARRYING A CLOSE COUSIN, FOR EXAMPLE, BECAUSE, LET'S FACE IT, THERE JUST WEREN'T AND AREN'T TODAY A WHOLE LOT OF INDIANS LEFT ALIVE AFTER THE "OLD" INDIAN WARS, AFTER 500 YEARS OF CAREFULLY PLANNED ERADICATION."MARRY OUT" OR INBREED...

SO, EVEN IF A CHILD IS BORN TO A "REAL INDIAN" MOTHER, IF THE FATHER IS NOT INDIAN AND IF THAT DROPS THE CHILD'S "BQ" (BLOOD QUANTUM") BELOW WHAT THE TRIBE ALLOWS, GUESS WHAT?

SUCH A DECREASE WAS PLANNED ON, HOPED FOR, AND IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO GET THERE!

MAYBE NOW YOU SEE HOW NICELY THOSE SECRET STERILIZATIONS HELP ERADICATE THE "INDIAN PROBLEM"?

IN JUST 10 YEARS, IT ELIMINATED ABOUT 40% OF THE HOPE FOR AN ENTIRE RACE OF PEOPLE!

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote this week on a bill to force approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which the House of Representatives already passed on Friday, American Indian groups who would be directly impacted by the tar sands project are converging on Washington D.C. to voice their opposition.

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe, whose territory in South Dakota lies along the proposed route of the pipeline, released a statement last week calling Congressional approval of the project an “act of war against our people.”

In a call with reporters on Monday, President Cyril Scott of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe vowed to fight back should the pipeline win government approval.

“Did I declare war on the Keystone XL pipeline? Hell yeah, I did,” said Scott. “I pledge my life to stop these people from harming our children and grandchildren and way of life. They will not cross our treaty lands. We have so much to lose here.”

“I’m going to talk to every senator and anybody who will talk to me,” he said. “I will tell them, ‘It’s not a matter of if the pipeline will contaminate the Ogallala Aquifer, but when. And if you contaminate the aquifer, we can’t drink, we can’t grow crops. Where are we going to get our water, from Congress?'”

Besides the environmental threat of the pipeline, which Scott called an “atrocity against all humans,” the Rosebud Sioux say the U.S. government has not met its treaty obligations to ask the tribe for approval of projects that cross their territory.

“The U.S. government does not consult us,” he said, noting that concerns brought to the Department of Interior and to the Department of State have been so far ignored. “We have a sovereign nation.

We have our own constitution and laws here. But they violated my people’s treaty rights once again.”

[I MUST NOTE HERE THAT THERE WAS NOT ONE OF OVER 500 TREATIES ORIGINALLY MADE WITH "INDIANS" THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT KEPT. THE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BROKE EVERY ONE OF THEM.]

Scott emphasized that the “war” he is declaring is a legal one, not a physical one. To bolster his tribe’s efforts, he is calling for a meeting of all the tribes in the Great Sioux Nation in the coming weeks. “When I was elected and took my oath of office, I said I would protect the next seven generations,” Scott told reporters. “I have that obligation not only as president, but as a warrior of the tribe.”

Native American activists across the US and Canada have been organizing for years to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline and other fossil fuel projects that threaten their land, air and water. O.J. Semans, a Rosebud Sioux tribal member with the voting rights group Four Directions, credits concern about the pipeline for boosting voting turnout by 5 percent this year compared to the last midterm election. “By participating in the process and electing individuals that understand our culture and protect our sacred land and water, natives can make a difference,” he said.

Semans said tribal members opposed to the pipeline have options both inside and outside the political process, including testifying before the state’s public utilities commission “about how destructive it is to our water,” suing the federal government for violating its treaties with tribe, and directly petitioning President Obama to reject the pipeline.

President Obama has suggested, but not confirmed, that he would veto the bill, but even federal approval could be stymied by courts and commissions in the states along the pipeline’s route.

Should all else fail, the Rosebud Sioux and eight other tribes in South Dakota have set up a “Spirit Camp” directly in the proposed path of the pipeline.

“We are using every alternative to protect Mother Earth,” said Semans. “We have been camped there for 6 or 7 months, and will stay until we get this resolved.”

When asked about the difficulty of maintaining the camp through an abnormally frigid winter, Semans replied: “We’ll survive.”

ADD INTENTIONAL POLLUTION OF LAND AND WATER ON TRIBAL LANDS TO STERILIZATION, NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING, AND SELLING OFF INDIAN LANDS.EXAMPLE #4, FEBRUARY, 2015, FROM 'INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY MEDIA NETWORK'[BE HONEST...HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW 'INDIANS HAD THEIR OWN MEDIA NETWORK?] "In the Americas, powerful and growing Indigenous-led movements are increasingly being targeted by U.S. military and intelligence agencies in their counterinsurgency planning. The National Intelligence Council projected in its 2005 report 'Mapping the Global Future 2020' that the “demands of free markets...will fuel a revival in populism and drive indigenous movements, which so far have sought change through democratic means, to consider more drastic means” (p. 77).The Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO), at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has applied this emerging doctrine to Latin America. In the Military Review (7-8/99), the FMSO lumped together “Insurgencies, Terrorist Groups and Indigenous Movements,” and warned of Indigenous rebellions in Mexico (5-6/97). The FMSO’s Lt. Col. Geoffrey Demarest stated in his Geoproperty: Foreign Affairs, National Security and Property Rights that “The coming center of gravity of armed political struggles may be indigenous populations…” and that the Internet is increasingly being used by “Indigenous rebels, feminists, troublemakers...” Wherever it is waged in the world, the Global War on Tribes has some common characteristics. First, the war is most blatantly being waged to steal natural resources under tribal lands. The rugged or inaccessible terrain that prevented colonial powers from eliminating tribal cultures also made accessing minerals, oil, and timber more difficult—and Indigenous peoples protected their biodiversity—so a greater share is now left on tribal lands than on more accessible lands.Second, the “Global War on Tribes” is a campaign against the very existence of tribal regions that are not under centralized state control, and still retain non-capitalist social organization (even if they are not all egalitarian in their values). In her 'Paradigm Wars', Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, ex-chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, commented that “promoters of economic globalization... use the overwhelming pressure of homogenization to teach us that indigenous political, economic and cultural systems are obstacles to their ‘progress.’”Third, the collective form of organization enables tribal peoples to fight back, because they still have social networks of trust to defend their lands and ways of life. The Indian writer Arundhati Roy told me that tribal peoples “have an imagination outside this bar-coded capitalist society that everybody else lives in…that’s why there’s… a whole bandwidth of resistance that has actually managed for quite a few years now to stall the corporate onslaught” (3/29/10).That’s why the “lawless tribal regions” have to be “tamed,” so as not to become a “festering sore,” and a source of resistance to the corporate state. The only way for tribal leaders not to be crushed by the counterinsurgency campaign is to accept its aims, its money, and its weapons.In the 21st century— just as many remaining pockets of exploitable resources are located in tribal regions—the only successful pockets of resistance may be found in the mountains, deserts and forests where tribal peoples refuse to die.Western society tends to dismiss “tribalism” as ignorant villagers brutally acting in their narrow self-interest.In Pakistan, U.S. drones have attacked the “Tribal Areas” along the “Northwest Frontier.” President Bush evoked frontier imagery when he stated in The New York Times (2/18/07), “This is wild country; this is wilder than the Wild West.” But The Economist (12/30/09) clarified that the allegedly “lawless” tribes “decide…matters among themselves… remarkably harmoniously, through…tribal customary law.”If the “Global War on Tribes” is as old as European colonialism, in the United States it is as old as the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, and we can trace it back to the Indian Wars, the Philippine-American War, and the Vietnam War. In his classic Facing West: the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building, Richard Drinnon documented that all three wars used identical rhetoric of enemy territory as hostile “Indian country.”Drinnon wrote: "All along, the obverse of Indian-hating had been the metaphysics of empire building…. Winning the West amounted to no less than winning the world.”[Now if that pisses you off, you ought to read two Vine Deloria, Jr. books, "God Is Red" and "Custer Died for Your Sins".]Robert D. Kaplan brazenly wrote in the Wall Street Journal (9/24/04) that “…the American military is back to the days of fighting the Indians ….The range of Indian groups, numbering in their hundreds, that the U.S. Cavalry…had to confront was no less varied than that of the warring ethnic and religious militias spread throughout Eurasia, Africa and South America in the early 21st century.”But to U.S. counterinsurgency tacticians, the ideology is secondary. The primary threat is a tribal identity that has not been formed or encouraged by capitalism. The goal of the Pentagon and the CIA is either to harness tribal loyalties to weaken their enemies, or to destroy tribal identities. Even in supporting tribal allies for their own ends, they may end up destroying the tribes.TRIBES...OFTEN A MISNOMER "The Lakota Nation, for example, contains seven bands including the Oglala, Hunkpapa, and Sicangu. In most other countries, these “bands” would be termed tribes, and the Lakota Nation would never be called a tribe. Colonial authorities diminished ethnic nations by defining them as “tribes,” and often pitted them against each other."

I WISH AMERICAN MEDIA WOULD LEARN THAT! THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, WHEN IT DEALS WITH "AMERICAN INDIAN", DEALS WITH SOVEREIGN NATIONS!EACH FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIGENOUS GROUP WITH WHICH AMERICA MADE OVER 500 BROKEN TREATIES IS, IN FACT, A SOVEREIGN NATION!

THOSE NATIONS ARE RECOGNIZED AS NATIONS EVEN BY THE CURSED U.N.!AND THEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM FOR THE FEDS...WASHINGTON, "THE GREAT WHITE FATHER", DOESN'T LIKE THAT.

FOR THE FEDS, IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THE "NOBLE SAVAGE" WAS JUST A FADING MEMORY, SO THE WAR CONTINUES...

SOMEWHERE, BETWEEN MAYBE THE "WAR ON POVERTY" (IN WHICH THE FEDS TRY TO KILL-OFF ALL THE POOR) AND THE "WAR ON TERROR" (IN WHICH MOST AMERICANS ARE THE DESIGNATED TARGETS), YOU CAN STILL FIND THE "AMERICAN INDIAN WARS" , SAFEGUARDING WHITE AMERICA FROM THE BLOODTHIRSTY HEATHEN RED SAVAGES, THAT 'GODLESS RACE' ...THOSE WHO KEEP REMINDING THE WORLD, BY THEIR VERY EXISTENCE, THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED ON TREACHERY, DECEIT, LIES AND MURDER, THEFT AND DISHONOR. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Thomas J. Morgan expressed the intent of federal policy in his annual report to the Interior Secretary for 1889.IT STANDS TODAY!“The Indians must conform to the white man’s ways, peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment and conform their mode of living substantially to our civilization. This civilization may not be the best possible, but it is the best the Indians can get. They cannot escape it and must either conform to it or be crushed by it.” The next year, Morgan reiterated the federal government’s policy toward Indians in his annual report. “It has become the settled policy of the government to break up reservations, destroy tribal relations, settle Indians upon their own homesteads, incorporate them into the national life, and deal with them not as nations or tribes or bands, but as individual citizens,” he wrote.

I SINCERELY HOPE THAT OLD BASTARD CAN SEE US TODAY...

STILL HERE, AS SOVEREIGN NATIONS!

STILL HERE, AS UNIQUE AS EVER IN ALL THE WORLD!

ASSIMILATION INCOMPLETE!STILL HERE!

IN SPITE OF "THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST" ... AND ONGOING 'INDIAN WARS'.

American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million Indigenous People.[NOTE: IN ALL THE "AMERICAS", NORTH, CENTRAL, SOUTH, THE NUMBER HAS OFTEN BEEN PLACED AT OVER 100 MILLION 'ERADICATED'. WE KNOW FROM HISTORICAL DIARIES THAT COLUMBUS' "VISITS" TOOK OUT OVER 1 MILLION. THE SPANIARDS BRAGGED OF WIPING OUT CITIES THEY ESTIMATED CONTAINED OVER A MILLION PEOPLE IN SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO.HISTORIES ARE WRITTEN BY THE CONQUERORS AND ARE SELDOM ALL THE FACTS.SOMETIMES, TRUTH IS COMPLETELY MISSING.]

~ FORGOTTEN PEOPLE...WHERE YOU CAN SEE MUCH OF THE CURRENT ATTACKS ON AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITIES AND INDIVIDUALS...MUCH, BUT NOT ALL.YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SUBSCRIBE TO READ THERE, THANKFULLY!https://www.facebook.com/forgottenpeople

~ Press Release: The BIA Begins the Final Solution to the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2014 the US Bureau of Indian Affairs launched a campaign intended to be the final solution to the long-standing Hopi-Navajo Land Dispute. The BIA and Hopi police have established barricades on roads leading to HPL, and neither outsiders or residents are allowed to enter or leave. Behind these barriers, the combined forces are going from home to home, removing the livestock on which the families depend for their survival.

All of the livestock of Caroline Tohannie, an 84 year old great grandmother, was confiscated on October 22, and two neighbors, Zena and Jerry Lane, who tried to console her, were beaten and Jerry was arrested. On Thursday, October 23, Colleen and Ruby Biakeddy had 120 sheep confiscated. Today, Tuesday, October 28, the confiscation of 120 sheep owned by Bahe and Etta Begay led to the police surrounding their children Milaya Yoe and Mr Sells with guns pointed and then arresting them. Many other families are being similarly attacked each day. These livestock confiscations are not based on a desire to improve the range ecosystem – their goal is to make it impossible for Dine' to remain on HPL. Hopi and BIA officials have also informed Dine' that the confiscations will be followed by eviction proceedings against families without valid leases with the Hopi Tribe, and that they do not intend to renew livestock permits for any Dine'. They intend to complete the final settlement of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute.Background on the Hopi-Navajo Land DisputeThe Hopi-Navajo Land dispute began when attorneys for the two tribes filed the Healing v Jones lawsuit in the 1950's to establish land title needed for issuing coal leases on lands on the Hopi Reservation occupied by Navajo families.

The decision in 1962 stated that coal royalties were to be split 50-50 and people from both tribes could reside in a "joint use area". In 1972, the Hopi became dissatisfied with the joint use arrangement, as the lands were primarily occupied by Navajo, so they engineered passage of US Law PL 93-531 which would replace the joint use arrangement with separate titles for each tribe to 50% of the land. Since the joint use area was occupied almost exclusively by Dine', this law mandated the forcible relocation of many Navajo. The program cost the federal government over $500 million, but many Dine' resisters defied the federal government and remained on their traditional land. In 1996, PL 104-301 attempted to resolve the issue by offering lifetime leases and limited grazing permits to the heads of households, but many Dine' refused to acknowledge their loss of land rights and did not sign these leases. The law authorized the government to use force against these resisters, but a massive outcry by over 250 religious and other non-governmental organizations in 1998 and an investigation by a Rapporteur from the United Nations HCHR forced the US to suspend enforcement of those provisions. That truce has held for over 15 years, until the BIA, for reasons not publicly announced, decided that the time had arrived to implementthe final solution.The BIA is waging war against Navajo Grandmothers on HPLBy Forgotten People · October 28, 2014